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...animated by a great loyalty of spirit, an absolute confidence in a favorite instructor, which argues well for the morale of our new army. He finds, more-over, an almost exaggerated eagerness for exactness and precision in details, which he traces to four causes: an extraordinary and admirable thirst for knowledge, the predominance of early specialization over general culture, an absence of the critical spirit, and a love for the tangible and concrete, for what can be immediately utilized...
...would gladly journey to New Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their blood. The result is the idea of a joint drill...
...noteworthy that the draft bill provides for the exemption of conscientious objectors to military service. That is a necessary, although theoretically not just, provision. Like the proverbial horse which refuses to quench its thirst, a man who will not fight, will not. Not Mr. Roosevelt, nor patriotism, nor the fear of death may force him. The burden of defending the irreconcilibly peaceful must be borne by those who prefer existence to peace...
Harvard beer in bottle, ginger ale and sarsaparilla will slake the burning thirst of the class. Cigarettes, pipe tobacco, crackers and cheese, will also be provided. All members of 1919 will be allowed to attend, whether or not they belong to the Union. The doors will not be opened until 8 o'clock...
Disraeli himself says that he entered politics from the love of popular favor, and from ambition to rise from the masses. He wanted distinction, power, and wanted it while he was alive. Did he, then, put political sincerity and integrity aside in his thirst for fame? That he wavered in his choice of parties, that he completely reversed his platform, aroused suspicions on this score. Yet he was less inconsistent than Peel and Gladstone; he was in constant sympathy with the people, as is shown by the tenor of the laws which he urged, and he invariably appears...